2019: Vth Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Brain-inspired Information Processing (DSBIIP)
Konstanz, July 29-31, 2019
Co-organized by several BiPhoProc partners (FEMTO-ST, Uni Konstanz, Uni Sankt-Gallen, LmB), 5th edition, and ETH Zürich!
Main EU actors on the topic have met again, in Konstanz (after Brussels, twice in Besançon, Konstanz).
18-20 December 2018
Cognitive Computing conference in Hannover, Gemany
Dr. Daniel Brunner, member of the BiPhoProc project, was chair of this prestigious international conference strongly supported by the Volkswagen Fundation.
Renowned speakers have been attracted (York, Standford, Lausanne, Amsterdam)
June 2018: An article by FEMTO-ST on Photonic Reservoir Computing chosen for the cover of OPTICA
J. Bueno, S. Maktoobi, L. Froehly, I. Fischer, M. Jacquot, L. Larger, D. Brunner, "Reinforcement learning in a large-scale photonic recurrent neural network", Optica, Vol.5, No.6, pp. 756-760 (2018); DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.5.000756
The article is a Highly Cited Paper in Web of Science.
2018: Prof. Juan-Pablo Ortega becomes associate member of the project, became Associate Editor of the International Journal of Forecasting
IJF is the Official Publication of the International Institute of Forecasters (Elsevier), and the most important journal for the Forecasting community.
December 4 2017
Daniel Hissel received the Blondel Medal
Prof. Daniel Hissel, project member, was awarded with the SEE André Blondel Medal, for his numerous and outstanding scientific contributions in the field of Fuel Cell systems
2017: IVth Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Brain-inspired Information Processing (DSBIIP)
Konstanz, October 5-6, 2017
Co-organized by several BiPhoProc partners (FEMTO-ST, Uni Konstanz, Uni Sankt-Gallen, LmB), 4th edition, and with Jacobs Universität Bremen (Prof. Herbert Jaeger)!
Main EU actors on the topic have met again, this time in in Konstanz (after Brussels in 2012, twice in Besançon in 2013 and 2015).
February 2017, high impact publication:
Publication of the fastest photonic brain
Published in Physical Review X; Selected for a Physics Viewpoint by APS (there are 100 such selected articles among the 18,000 published every year by the American Physical Society); Also selected for the Research Highlights in Nature
Highlights in...
, Physics Viewpoint (1% selection)
... And selected as a Research Highlight in
Illustration for time-space transposed processing of delay-based Reservoir Computing;
Schematic of the photonic setup.
May 18th -21st 2016, international workshop:
"BEYOND! von Neumann bottleneck - Brain Inspired Computing", Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany
An international workshop at Max Planck conference center in Berlin, Harnack House, jointly organized by the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics (Prof. Stuart Parkin) in Halle, and the FEMTO-ST Institute (Dr. Daniel Brunner) in Besançon.
November 2-3 2015, international workshop:
"Dynamical systems and brain-inspired information processing", Besançon, France
The third edition of an international workshop focused on Reservoir Computing, however also strongly open onto side research activities. It is jointly organized by the LMB (Dr. Juan-Pablo Ortega and Dr. Lyudmila Grigoryeva) and FEMTO-ST (Prof. Laurent Larger) in Besançon.
